Charles Nourse
{{Short description|American football player and lawyer (1888–1974)}}
{{for|the U.S. Army officer|Charles Josephus Nourse}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox college football player
| name = Charles Nourse
| image =
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| class =
| currentposition = Center
| birth_date = February 24, 1888
| birth_place = New York City, New York
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1974|4|25|1888|2|24}}
| death_place = Manhattan, New York
| currentnumber =
| highschool = St. Paul's School
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 0
| weight_lb = 197
| pastschools = Harvard (1905–1909)
| school = Harvard Crimson
| highlights=Consensus All-American (1908)
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Charles Joseph Nourse (February 24, 1888 – April 25, 1974) was an American football player and lawyer. He played college football at Harvard University and was a consensus first-team selection to the 1908 College Football All-America Team.
Early life
Nourse was born in 1888, a son of Charles J. Nourse of New York. He attended preparatory school at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire.
=College football career=
As an undergraduate, Nourse studied law at Harvard College from 1905 to 1909.{{cite news|title=Harvard University Directory|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1913|page=596|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ia4VAAAAIAAJ}} He was six feet tall and weighed 197 pounds while at Harvard. He played on the freshman football team in 1906 and on the Harvard Crimson football team in 1907 and 1908.{{Cite news|title=Who Will Play for Harvard: Statistics of Regulars and Substitutes on Crimson Team|newspaper=Boston Evening Transcript|date=November 19, 1908|page=2|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2249&dat=19081119&id=eZY-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=zlkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=966,1942821}} After the 1908 season, he was selected as a consensus first-team center on the 1908 College Football All-America Team.{{cite web|title=2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections|publisher=National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)|year=2014|accessdate=August 16, 2014|page=4|url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2014/Awards.pdf}}
Career
After receiving his bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1909, Nourse spent three years at Columbia Law School]. He was editor of the Columbia Law Review and graduated in 1912. After his admission to the bar, Nourse, practiced law, initially with the law with the firm of Winthrop & Stimson in New York City,{{cite book|title=Sexennial Report, Class of 1909, Harvard College|publisher=Press of George H. Dean, Boston|date=1915|pages=215–216|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zMgnAAAAYAAJ}} and later with the firm of Prince & Burlingame.{{Cite book|title=Harvard College Class of 1909 Vicennial Report|date=June 1929|publisher=The Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass.|page=87}}
During World War I, Nourse served in the 31st Field Artillery, attaining the rank of captain, and serving under Henry L. Stimson, who later became the U.S. Secretary of State and Secretary of War. After the war, Nourse returned to the practice of law. From 1927 to 1970, he was with the Wall Street law firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts and its predecessor firm, Burlingame, Nourse & Pettit. His clients included Bristol-Myers Company, the New York Trust Company, the Fulton Trust Company and the Safe Deposit Company of New York.
Personal life
Nourse was married in June 1922 to Margaret Lawrence Strong in a ceremony at Short Hills, New Jersey.{{cite news|title=Alumni Notes|publisher=Harvard Alumni Bulletin|date=October 5, 1922|page=51|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pmAiAQAAMAAJ}} Margaret, a daughter of James Remsen Strong, was attended by her sister, the former Charlotte Remsen Strong, wife of banker Schuyler Van Vechten.{{cite news |title=MISS STRONG WEDS CHARLES J. NOURSE; Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Strong Married in Christ Church, Short Hills, N.J. MISS WOODRUFF A BRIDE Nuptials of Miss Amalita Stagg and J.F. Thompson; Miss Harriette Shepard and J. Bernard Rose. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1922/06/04/archives/miss-strong-weds-charles-j-nourse-daughter-of-mr-and-mrs-jr-strong.html |accessdate=24 August 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=4 June 1922}}{{cite news |title=Van Vechten Dead Investment Banker |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/07/10/archives/van-vechten-dead-investment-banker.html |accessdate=24 August 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=10 July 1973}} In his later years, Nourse lived on East 67th Street in Manhattan and also at Oyster Bay, Long Island.
Nourse died in April 1974 at 115 East 167th Street, his home in Manhattan.{{cite news|title=Charles J. Nours, Law Partner, Dies|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 27, 1974|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/04/27/archives/charles-j-nourse-law-partner-dies.html}}
References
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{{1908 College Football Consensus All-Americans}}
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Category:American football centers
Category:Harvard Crimson football players
Category:All-American college football players
Category:Players of American football from New York City
Category:People from the Upper East Side
Category:People from Oyster Bay (town), New York
Category:Players of American football from Nassau County, New York